Thanks a lot vvirtho for that informational & helping post. Well, as for the board, I think its most probably BX98 or BX98-ATX. Those links helped me a lot. So, I am finally going to flash the bios. I hope it goes out well.

avdven>>As for the HDD, I have a Samsung 40GB and a 8.4GB Seagate. I downloaded the utils (disk manager) from the seagate site, but that util can only work on seagate disks

So, that means i "will" have to flash the bios. Got no other alternative.

Thanks a lot again

Manpreet